Network Engineer

Acestack; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Acestack is seeking a Network Engineer in Chicago, IL (Onsite) to design, deploy, and support solutions for international business units, partners, and customers. The role involves building and supporting solutions with engineering and operations teams.

Responsibilities include migrating branches to Zscaler SD-WAN, analyzing needs, and participating in customer and IT staff meetings to qualify opportunities. Strong networking knowledge and security tooling are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in network engineering.

Responsibilities

• Migrate branch sites from MPLS to Zscaler SD-WAN solution as part of global branch transformation project.
• Analyze business needs; gather requirements, designs, installs, troubleshoots, and supports technical solutions in a world-class infrastructure.
• Participate in regular meetings and conference calls with customers and IT staff to help qualify opportunities and technical solutions.

Skills

5+ years experience

WAN migrations

Excellent communications

Tools

Zscaler SD-WAN ZTB

Cisco Wireless

Cisco ISE

Network automation tools

SolarWinds

ThousandEyes

Cisco Routing/Switching

QoS for voice/video

Palo Alto firewalls

F5 LTM/GTM

Job description

Job Title

Network Engineer

Location

Chicago, IL (Onsite)

Fulltime

Job Description

Network Engineer

The Network Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to assist in designing solutions for international business units, partners and customers. The Network Engineer will build, deploy, and support the solutions in conjunction with other engineering and operations resources.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

Migrate branch sites from MPLS to Zscaler SD-WAN solution as part of global branch transformation project.

Analyze business needs; gather requirements, designs, installs, troubleshoots, and supports technical solutions in a world-class infrastructure.

Participate in regular meetings and conference calls with customers and IT staff to help qualify opportunities and technical solutions.

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Strong technical knowledge and experience in several of the following (certification a plus):

• o Zscaler SD-WAN ZTB solution


• o Cisco Wireless


• o Cisco ISE


• o Network automation using Cisco Catalyst Center or similar tools


• o Network Monitoring tools such as SolarWinds and Thousand Eyes


• o Cisco Routing/Switching, spine/leaf architecture


• o QoS, prioritization of voice and video


• o Palo Alto Networks firewalls and security solutions


• o F5 LTM/GTM

5+ years' experience in network engineering. Experience with branch site WAN migrations is required with focus on Zscaler solutions.

In depth knowledge and understanding of networking technologies, design principles, and the practical application of routers, switches, virtualization, storage, storage networking virtualization/zoning, load-balancers and network security.

Knowledge of network security solutions such as firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion detection/prevention, and web application firewalls.

Strong documentation skills and experience generating technical documents, diagrams, solutions specifications, guidelines, processes, and procedures.

Excellent communications and customer service skills with proven ability to communicate professionally in a corporate environment.

Experience in standardizing and automating network configuration and deployment

Experience with software and hardware troubleshooting and system monitoring.

Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for implementations and being a point of escalation